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C. F. HENDERSON.

SCHOOL BAG.

APPLICATION FlLED NOV. 23, 1916.

L fififi 'l Patented June 3, 1919.

,NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. HENDERSON, 0F MADISONVILLE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE KEMPER- THOMAS COMPANY, OF NORWOOD, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SCHOOL-BAG.

Application filed November 23, 1916.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES F. HENDER- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Madisonville, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in School-Bags, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to school bags particularly of the kind sold for advertising purposes in which the construction is as simple and inexpensive as can be devised. A great difliculty with bags of this kind is that the student drops his pencils, pens or the like in the bag and has difliculty in getting them out without dumping the contents out of the bag.

It is accordingly my object to provide for a pencil or pen pocket in the nature of a scholars companion in connection with a bag of inexpensive construction. Then again it is the object to mount the pocket in the bag so as not to interfere with the use of the bag in any way and so as to incorporate the scholars companion feature with the bag structure in a way to effect the greatest economy in construction of the entire article.

These objects I accomplish by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the bag partly broken away so as to show the pocket or scholars companion.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the bag showing the method of mounting and positioning the scholars companion feature.

' A suitable piece of material is bent double and bound with a binding strip 1 to form a bag 2. A binding strip 8 is run along the bottom of the bag as a reinforcement, and the side binding strips are extended so as to form a handle 4 for the bag.

The binding strips comprise single pieces Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. June 3, 1919.

Serial No. 132,983.

of tape or the like, which are bent double longitudinally and sewed with one side on each side of the piece to be bound or edged. Along the top edge of the bag a binding strip 5 is sewed so as to form a complete reinforcing edge for the bag in the nature of a hem member.

A piece of material of less length than the width of the bag is provided, same being bent into three folds. Two of the folds are bound together with a binding strip 6 which also is run over the third flap, thereby forming a long pocket 7 and a flap 8 therefor.

In sewing the binding strip 5 in place, the flap 8 is bent adjacent the pocket and sewed to the edge of the bag by means of thebinding strip stitches, thereby assembling the pocket or scholars companion with the bag without extra stitching and allowing the pocket to depend inside of the bag from the edge thereof, with the flap also extending down over the pocket and closing it.

The location of the scholars companion in the top of the main bag is of particular ad vantage, as it prevents the necessity for groping in the bag to find the pocket. It is also of great structural importance, because it permits of the easy assembling of the pocket with the bag as now fully described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A school bag made from a single piece of.

suitable material folded on itself, with a binding strip to bind the side edges together to form a bag open at the top, in combination with a strip of similar material folded on itself to form a pocket of less depth than the depth of the bag with the rear wall of the pocket folded over to form a cover flap,

and a binding strip for the top edge of the bag, with the stitches therefor securing the upper edge of the pocket portion at the fold of the cover flap to the upper edge of the bag on the inside, whereby the pocket portion may be readily and easily secured in place.

CHARLES F. HENDERSON.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

